It was a promising, if ambitious, idea: offering the chance to buy a home-cooked dinner from a local amateur cook who lives around the corner. Why couldn’t Menu Next Door make it work? Menu Next Door launched its Brussels-based food sharing platform in 2015, with more than 600 Belgian cooks joining the platform. It expanded to London and Paris in …
Uber Eats: a Q&A with Uber’s UK food delivery boss
Uber began its foray into London food delivery in June this year. Uber Eats is currently present in 24 cities in six countries, with plenty more added every month. Will Uber be able to dislodge Deliveroo as the market leader? Its UK general manager, Toussaint Wattinne, answers Courier’s questions. Why has Uber got into delivering food? We’ve been operating a …